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VOL. XI BARN WELL COUI^r HOUSE. S.O JUNE 31. 1888. *l+"7r- i BQIAVTK AMD VAKIKB CAIKXB t.VUKP. ■ John Qnuii, a native of county An* trim, Ireland, but for many year* past ^ * resident of GreenvUIo, died on aim- probable tbat yonng Practer will come to day, aged 73 yearn, at Ida home on Fall street Ills death was a hard Iblow <6 the wife whom he leave* behind and a cause, of real grief to those who knew and appreciated hfs sterling worth It Was, too, thy eloM of a career more fall of the checkered romance of reality than are the novel* that men write Who survive* him while they were yet young people In their tielgliboring homes in county Antrim. He was a Catholic and she a Presbyterian, and because of that difference the parent* of the young girl forbade the match. She was sent to America, and young Grant followed her here. Then she was recalled to England whither her faith ful lore* soon went again Afterwards she baring been again sent to this coun- with a vicious wink that made tho deacon i man. llo wan sore and galled by the sonba shudder from hat te boots. ' - bo had met with today, lie sat quiet in the “Well, I have discharged tqy duty,” he gaudy satd, after an irresolute pause. . “It is most seek you this afternoon.’’ “And if bs comes, I am not to see hbnf 1 with an attempt at a jocular tone that had more terrible force in it even to the cold blooded hearer than any painful outcry. "Why, man, I nin pushed nearer to tlic wall today than anybody knows. As for this boy —well, no •matter What he is to me. I gave up Homcrhing for turn once. It seems a* if I hart the right to ask his help now, when— MrTGrttdt became engaged to the wiW-l-* rl ** a d**»th has n* by the throat.« He “ looked vacantly, quickly about him, at the boxes, the cars rattling by, at the head of his hotel parlor, holding duck cloao while the servants lighted tho lamps and |«opls came and went; he looked steadily at the coat t ot what he meant .to do. ‘TU take the weight of your old father off of you. Jack,” be said at last, stooping to kin* the fat, red little face, “Good-by, ray sou,’’ He did take it oif. He entered rive boy . under the name of Proctor at a fashionable boarding school, setting aside the entire sum he bod saved with which to start a paper in | Philadelphia. “I can scratch for luyseif,” he ; said. Let tho lad have everything 1» wants,” he friend!” Mr. McMarray harried nervomly away, _ , picking hit rteps amung Use boxes and bales. try, young Grant made an apiertistmciit Htandwli *to«d • moment toting at the to meet bar In Liverpool and they Wfrf to (round, mad thru turned and stumped ap the be married hut there was smne mlsun- narrow rtrtoty rtairs that toi U, the U5. (ierstandlng. and .be disappointed lover ^^??* >l urged his governers ono (lay, “His futh.r liad the best blood in Virginia in his Vcinr, Cane. McMurray tlvought he bad b«>n drink- madam. Aad teach him religion. Hi* ing. "I am sorry I troubled myself about mother”— but lie broke down her. "Shea it,” lie said, with dignity. "Good day, MaJ. yonder,” besaid quietly at last, glancing up. BtnnilisU.” - . 1 Tbc governess nodded, and understood him. "Good day ” effeetlng a ArarUhing bow tl^ feint succeeded. Of what It wHh hi* unsteody baud. “Tako old Dan to himself, be said n-Hhing; it Inal lifted tba boy point your next sermon, will you I I’ve lived at hc Uiortgbt, into a purs region ot by my wits. Pra mn.le myself the coin pan- fashion, and n-ftneinent, and salvation. The kst of porta—uf nobles, sir! And now wlveu glories of the Proctesw, in the coarse of years, the end comes, damn it, man, I bavsn t a gren and malMlIMI readily in the major's enlisted la a British regiment bound for , ^ t Uo*. aor^td to lad la. He afterward found that the fair smmgh. ll warned la I ship that carried him oat paeead tba hi- h*e bi* w«h that raws lag vassal from America an which **"* ^ * klaAatanded aiscuadag la harp their t alghtsaa rear* thmngh la that item thrtIMag vxprrtswcra thta depay —May Ha aaa mtag ad IMM and v*m b»d e- - • * • • ; - » HrriMe sadwa m af tba KagHH a lhasa A ria* at* ln-4 an rx,« , ba amend atgM pmt* lama* la *—< f ly Hi raae* la aft. IB to totf • to to totof ftoto totoM SstoMto^ Im # to tototo^ toi Mto totoPf to toi • to Immi •%' totoMt totoatoMto# to toa atoaf itoto toto^g aaaaaal tot toa ttoai awaa Ito a to mm ^ toi mi wmm mmm0k toa wm 4ki toa atoto af toa #to, to aaato to hamlluig. There were tiinr* when hc Iwcaina confused himself, so real bad Jack’s illustri ous family grown. “Uetucnvber your father the gcuarai, ladr he would cry, when urging the boy to mauixnm or roarage. “Xeblsmy obUp-r "Ivs-nneH If I know whethtr liver* waas Gesv. IVorbw or antT he aoahl matter jar- pteud to LianeU eftmwanl Well, there was the «ad of b ell asm. The 1 Ue had beea pteyad wwcmafaDy f a yean, yet now all Je-a'* weetfwae ta kaaw 11 wae aba Batlag hy Ito toe as hladrtrt tdsnas, taiqdag his kaam with Ma vtawy flapma, lb* vaeyw went ■* T M tbte eTW* -f —e •“ ranee's aehedy who kaesv me te Vtrgtaba ■ad A wvw ■ set eaea* leUwhari aad am Ihaa, that eaat tea ateml the he* * Me *ew en “Until to-anwrow-BBitwi yoo woald rothic 1 would go to-lUght,” quickly. "Yes, I would rntlvor. 1 bavo some busl- uesH-J-thvro will be so One men hers after awhile—it wouldn't b? best for yon to stay.” “Very well,” Maddy no.UW, taming her stockinged feet about before the Are, She P££ur jaskixi questions, but »he gener ally frund out all that the wanted to know without them. “How long can 1 stay, Uncle Dan!” taking ott her hat. “In two hours wilt be time enough. Let me have you king ns I can.” “Isn’t that a lovely hatf’ poking It on her little fat fid;, and looking over it steadily into bis gauut, change tow face. “The brown plume is just the shade of my hair. Been hard at work on Tlie Camera lately, dearr “Tiiey'vu needed nothing for two weeks,’* "OUr She was quiet a minute. “Just put that hat carefully aaay fa my room, won’t you! and bring me my slipper*. They're in tlie lower drawer. You have the keys” She sat motiontaw until the door chwod behind him, and then like a flash she was in the pan try cupboard: which was empty, a* we know, Vmd Iwek again by the fire. Hbo took op the gobies and smoltol it. The mnjnr, coming back, glanced at it jealously, but it stud where be left It, and Maddy was imsiug Lully bad in bw own low chair. She Pa* pale, and the water stood la bar eye*.” “ You’re not well, cbitdr “Ka Hd dawn by am, Uarie Dan. I'm tttad and I'm haagry, that's aU. I no lewd a ■airaruhma httk supprr aa I cans* akmg. It j will tm her* praarntly.* She tank hM U« ■aad aa he m* hy tor, flagsrtag M aver, baM- loc M now and Ito a to bar rtoah IVuma- to doae it At that moment !C*d<ly r vught sight of a follow bit of writing on the haarth, stooped, pitched it up. 81* nodded aa she read it Wltliout safpi tse. "Hi* son? And Jack wants lb* old man uow to dany itf Not to atand in his way C Tbe first hint about that poor dblta mbttit Clara had turned ber blood to gnlL Hive was suddenly bitter and unjust aa death to Jack, to whom she tod given Ivor whole Ufa of patient, sweet tempered trust. The stop* onnvo nearer. The poor oH ma jor hacked toward the in iter door, hi* un couth face white and wet. “I'm not writ j I'm going to lie down on your bwk TakeTfim away with you, Ahukly. I can't see either of yodtomlght." Yet even then H gave him * vague pleasure to hear how light and gay , and reeoluri tho boy's steps Were, ‘ Maddy came quietly between hint and tb« door. “No, we win both see this Jack, who ’ puts you oat of his way.” • Tlx; door opened. There was the old short, stout built Jack) Tba old sturdy, honest face Under the move fur can, the twitch id the mouth raady to make a Joke at any body or at 1 hintwlf. “Why, Msrtdyt I did not hops to am yoa tore, little wmatt,” giving her a brotherly , shake of the hand, and so flgarati rely setting her aside. How the duM morbid shadow* that bad filled tbs room mpa aside before 1 Mm! MartstamleH that tor itf. tod toea “I don't know/ said Mr. Jack, wbciw con science twinged him with certain roouullgbt walks iu Chlcaga • * H!va was very couskkr ate god kind to me, Madrlin* Her Utbcr was anxious for me to take the First church bora. But I'd made np my mind to that tittle bom* tn tin west--if you wqaMgo with mo/ to thought you'd come for me/ faddy. Tho mayvr ws* Jooklnjf at tbem ore* Ms qwctackm . ' 80! Bor” he uviJ, in Aniau> bo would tmMcM Intbr 1 butai thdl. Ore* Wiese Ms While San Fruncisropafa tion to K.imqvean fash tons tndnH niehoa more exnntplra «f or atylca than mast large cities, particularly frhr of the wrflrl and ovhrconts. For this the _ mate Is hirgely rrspOOMM*. Hi Narw York on n fine atimim r da* the lady Who pnmde Hnsidwiiy IA a hriiry nlatct would aertaluly to rcfitnlcd with more thnn interest. Kqtudly tlM to the strolling ti iiia*t to~ om iiiinr, Wrap or tlpjOK. Koch snaebroa- Iciiia imss UnitotlcM (a San FraneteiOk however. There la no climatic or fashionable do rm? that forbids .the spprensaea of Mi* sealskin meter ahjWUctn, and it do*« active service Ikfonghoitt (hc yaar. O** caa tonally It dors duty under try tag rdr- cnmstances, for (he fog or wind of a awm- mrr day la likely to give place at aay mm nvrtrt to Uudimmad sanshlrie that make* the thermometer Vi Kt rangers from older the sealskin Ulster cornea Into faahtaB for a brief apace In the IwrivemoaU amaaed at ks perennial Nig* I* Fraortsca. The fair arx are tart tba one* who brsaeat sharp aad straage tmeta la the matter af «.v etmat la am of •ad is ot aa a rale •41 deg*. 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Wtownam a^^mim«^|ma^amA toa a*p* ^p^gys ®totovtoae tokp- kV*a ^ to** to* qptototo to tCSS^toto^daHAa 1 *toi to*g hHIHk^k to tot aaaaa* totof toinaaa TV* 1 toa*0A to*aaay tokaadHI to* aw •* sam am*y ymaakadtoaa thmwto ton* aaa* m . WtototomHtoato | tomto tokaamk tow akekf ••■* hwtoaw ( Yto 00 to katol add ■ fc* A* ft *mr to max ^ P aaMM ■ T 1 H tom 1 ! • L Uw law* illy by Ito* Me es yarta u» am be eg aell w Mag n««<A wa*e ky fhadlag >h*m ato* weal a day *1 light **fe%irta^!*t. A negro pNa> her addN«aeil hU Cork aHk great eniamtneM «a tka sobje,, of mlnw-lea at foH*«*«: “My beloved frirnca, de greatest c/m tolrad-^ was ’kaat dr Hate* and deCsbea. Here a as fl.OQO lonvea and J.OOrt fl*hes, and tie taalve 'potties had to eat drat all. I>c miracle Is dey - Idn't hu*t. M Hand to Hand. ■y ■■ . ■ ■ slewt • . aaaAtomwmsh «M Waastoto a* totoMVaf •-wk, ami >Av4 bimslmatM Naghly eaas^a km tlwy srer •fie* yatomlly » MS wnsps sf anst-sss ad* ho at srne idmwd aha* h* heya to* amak 1» * .. *»i amt la tw aaaata* bs par- ammb almasm aWmal m*wm M TM asebl W’” tmsa totms#y toad—Aw We hw ho met kw ry totoad toak ami imo amvwm ■ml* kamto me** *toppml oem Mi eyso TM aestthtag wae a Marty kaa ngW aa hto Tka iHaae *«• a 1 M 1 latte 1 n*ai. »«d Me BY REBECCA HARDING DAVIS. (Completed J „ ran* ft. Later in the afternoon tho iftajff stood leaning against a pile of bale* in front of . the ware house, loftily tapping hi* chin with hi* pinchbeck beaded cane and listening to Mr. McMurray. That gentleman, iu his anxiety lest the church should actually losa Proctor, had resorted to the desperate maflffe of nn appeal to Standish. The old man kept bis malicious eyes fixed »i»on him, and grinning With enjoyment of bis enilorraMHincnt, but under the grin he looked haggard and anxloua - “80 the bny has a mind to tako tbc part of hia old friend* He'd stick by tbo hulk be cause it's going down! Tutf tut! There'* stupidity for yw.” “I do not talk in mrtaptmr about hnlkx. 2 only thought it likely, from my knowledge of you, yon might pmsime on your acquaint ance with the lad ami Me gvnemu* natur* to draw hiia into trouble, aad I warn yoa what Ike malt will b* to Mas.” "It wifi ruin Mia to M haowa as erva my riond I aadantaad.* McMurray Mutated A/tor all. why act tv* toamdkb a Mat af racfcl If M maoM a of a ndfeuyiag Ml •Vt« af lhlag«f«w "pan* Dqrhrow'a Mby ” Hr. M went oa for ysar*. Th- re wav always a strang snwil of r|~ara aad printer's task m the air Urn child breathed, aad no duabt when she ram* In be a ynaag lady tbe learned to think In a scrappy, itomUing. n*w»pape* way; Imt MadcUacs life was ta fact m clean!v, and sweat, and tender among these men, as if she had Iwcn one uf any rom-bnd ganlni of girls, perhaps more so. Whatever psrasent of lies tbe major chose to pet on as armor, or to perk and vaunt himself in out among other neu, bo never wore it into “tba oockkrft.” Nobody could account for tbe almost pathetic tenderness of his love to tho girl It wa* more than seemed due for her father's sake, or eveu her own. Once, however, hc had mid to her, “You came tv take the place of a child that I lost.” That was the only time he had hinted at the secret of his former life. He kept it bi.klen even from himself. It came to him today, nnd would not be thrust aside. In a few boon it would be known to all the world. . John Proctor wns ids son. He remembered well now the Last day when hc had called tbo boy hy that name. It .was a dreary, rainy season in Novomb r, or four years before he took Madeline. He Mt by a hotel window with Jack on his knee. It was a week since he had come from Richmond, tearing the child’s mother dead there. He had spent the week going from one newspaper oftieo to another, vaunting and vaporing, and drinking hard, imt with a still uptd eonscieusneas all tho time of stand ing by her grave, on which the rain pat tered, with Mr riHkfa life left in hia hands ta do with it what be would. Mary'* boy would have grows lata a truth ful, Mod fearing man if ofe hod lived; a gMittoNvan. too; tho class which Rtatadisb. with ail Ma tawdry bragging, watrhod far etf with joatoas awn Itow— What ensdd ba atoka *< tka Myl Ha look ito hale chap's hank to his, aad pslkd tom rt wsr. trying k was asi Madrltato! cMMI toll year "Of mums * k nat sac ’ tkrr* am an asawy pr**«y gtrU si.alingla ta toss yaa*wuho«t kam! Ok dsaf, rai gall* froara, Uaek Da*r Hto looked aa if ato wem to* cMbky. liosplrd (aca was blur, aad tba riair dmps •tool in tor eyva Hto pNctod torsrif up on tba awjork etohr, towtiag bar hands in ttotr woolen clove* together. “If you only could unlace my toutsf My fart haven't had a MV of fading for nn hour. Five miles did they tram,*, I didn't want to tweak the »<>t« fnt car fare. If* tbe half yearly poy dqy, yon know. Just'Took at it,” fumliling in bur besoc.t under her sack and bringing 'mt warm and .Tisp a bright new note. “I couldn't deep until we’d both seen it and—gone halves!” winking with both eyes and laugh ing all over in the most ridiculous, lovable way. Tho major had taken Off tor shoes, and stood with them in his hands looking down at her. She waa so alive with beauty, tody A* I toawd to Ms way to Ma waal <wtf of his way. hw a»e i* to» F qatto * It “la Jaafc 1 I gi** s! Ilmlgt aa It ato tod ww«aaafm« walk towafg "If bat en«M M saattar ta Mm* ohl tor and braggart, mt McMunuy cslkd me. I saw hw chunh to-day, and the boaee wtom to wiy live. So grandly ftarniatod, MaddyP “Oiwrchrs and furniture ^ with a ora- teniptu<ius shrug. “Y.Twt are ttoy to JackT “I saw the woman to la to marry.” “Ah! the woman"— “A daughter of MrAIarmy's*-a delicate, white roselmd of a girl He boa everything now the world can give, Jack has. There's but «ite bar in his way, and that won't be tlioro long/ But Madeline had turned to tbe window, her face toward the sun that was going down. It was some time before she came hack. When she did, she stood by the mantel shelf looking down at him. “Dow the woman lovehimr - “I thought an. It was her fae**.’ , "She only has known him a little whilef* “Withrow told me they met last month in Chicago. Tbe match was arranged tliere.” Hbc looked at her hand. Thera waa a thin gold ring oa one linger—a Cheap little trifle, mich ok a schoM boy would give. It had beea there so many years that It bound and twined the woman’s fall grown finger. It had done so for many year*. “One mouth r sho said to herself again and kwkv The sun was down, but tbo reflection from the snow on tho roofs threw a pleasant bright ness into the many windows, while the chirk ticked cheerfully tbo last boar of ftivllgta away. A auto baiow Wake the silmec iota Wbirh they had fakaa. The steira were loaf •ad netot), aad stops coaid to brawl creak- tog fraaa raw flight to tto *Cto*. "Il « JaekT Tka an>* q*to kvarariy, ^toTlaa^toal taM, to tba* art af m woul^faA Jack never am thing. Maddy!” Ho on all hw faartoa aad Me- kmg in duabt about ad tba haarth rtag te thF comer wberr she stood aad took ap tor hand. “Ttorihgl ft's gone " Maddy gtancod down caratoaly. “Ring! Yoa; 1 rrmember now. That nag waa too ■mail I ttek it off tnag ago.” Jack's eyra twinkled; to bold her wrist tight. “How long ago! Within th* bouiT See bow rad and bruised the poor little hand 1*.”’ The pity waa too much tot heroic Maddy, 8ho gave a sob, but held the toon back in her Wet, miserable eyas. Jack never knew in all hia life bow deep tba bruise want whan that ring came off. He looked at ber steadily, Ckxfir, closer; lifted tbo bmt baud till his breath touched It, thert kissed it Just as he used to kiss ber lips long ago; <H no man had touched thorn since; as they never would b* kbaod again. She drew back. “You have no right to play with mo ta that way.” At tbo first tone of her altered voice, Jack stood startled aad. grave. “What do you mean, Modelina! Yod need not feign tbat you did not know 1 loved you when I went awuy two yean ago/ “You were under no pro min to me,* quickly. "I bar* no right to raproneb yoa.'' “No promise. But I loved yoa.” “And now little Clara baa taken toy place/ with ley compsaara. “I do not think that atrange.” “That poor littlerraatara! Ob, M ray yoa ag Mi iatry, Kvary prapar • lotky or nnlarkr any oatatato (IkH* aawatectarad Is own aactkxj of th* rimut atMa is bora alar, aa they seem to I Npmltoa of the energy or money pos sessed by the DIM who are iateraated ta poshing their aale. None succeed wtihoat adverti«lng, altbongk ntllUoas hare beea ■pent Ip puffing uertkioes that never sold tbe original stock shipped ta wholesale druggists. It la a game of chance wbeft you cannot eatinjata the risk- Kcsulta cut very little figure with the sales men, for If the stuff wilt sell K will go off their hand# with scarcely an effort, beeaua* their bast customers an the Chfctiic In valids, who nn tbtclud than files arooud a molasses cake. Nevertheless, I would prefer to take a new medicine out On the rood thhu handle Any of tho old ones whicfi hare been ad vertised from the cliffs of the Paci lc coast to tho rocky Ixtfito of Labrador. Ameri cans are experimentattve^iul will bay g new nostrum without any rccommetidv tion, for the simple reason that they hav* heard nothing Sgshtst It, rft. Ixmis leSds the country ta sales of quinine, malarial specific and bUions antidotes, and some of “the local manfifnetwrers will dear millions from two articles that originated here within the last two years,- but which dr* already beginning to elieit notiee.-^Georga Haskell. . ftsaaK* of Ovaftralalaj, Is one a* pee l of I be Mllraa- U fight which la to Car devoid of ty to to b* *f public Interest; this ! a man seemingly la saprrb phyaf- T, to reality, U to tor aa H to taWnad, aa to tow* 1 daprlvad af stare saimHa* to to m -tom tba waaaflH *£7 lows la I lagan, •BIS little boys I to toddle by and ec*'. stare, 1 saw. This stawia C ty general with Ito y were all too staring to tare. I m gathering so ailem. < spoke as they trudged lug rtxasi, and wbea they still aatd nothing, but found benches. M park* and’ oa th* gtoed about th by fatigne er can we go oft carta '■’iy - HI —Chicago JotirtMl. ■*y.l 111» ;*»; <: - "Why do It^Uato. almost hold a piaana Oly In Counterfeit coins}” was mkad af * treasury.detcctlra. "There to not money enough ta II fiaft ftatlrca. These latter wiu Besides, many Italiaan are 1 tag plaster of over to avoid detection fat try, where, I believe, punished with death. Over her* Rtoj A matter ti a year or tmo, ami then % tb*yi they are in when they are free, to Ik tie terror Amt them. They aaa trith light j ‘ fom of mo worth at a k-.-fAl XX. ." I ami total to hm« etototototftotoh tantofl toAh^edtealraw .tataaaaetoastotol tt ^totoi stow sag